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I make my own sunshine by bringing the outside-in... flowers, seashells, forcing bulbs, flowering branches, & water: an indoor fountain... bring sunshine into your home. -Pilgrimage Gal
Sunshine
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I like to think of autoimmune diseases as a fashion statement: we model their life altering ever-presence while we strive to make that long journey down the runway. -KR
Striving Together
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"Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
From “The Little Prince”
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"People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort." -Elizabeth Gilbert
Happiness
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"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein
Spirit
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss
Stay strong
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"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve." -J.K. Rowling
Possibilities
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"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." -Lewis Carroll
Believe
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Things work out if you let them.
Grandpa’s advice
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clarity
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"I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage." --Elizabeth Taylor
Courage
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"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me." --Alice Walker
Gifts
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Never give up looking for a doctor or nurse who will hear you and see you for you. When you find it, that partnership will make all the difference.
Never ever
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"To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?" --Christopher Hitchens
A way of looking at it…
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"Women are like tea bags....you never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water!"